Rajiv J. Shah

Rajiv Shah, M.D. "is the Deputy Director for Policy & Finance for Global Health at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He manages the program s policy and finance portfolio, helps manage the program's largest grant effort the Vaccine Fund, and shapes overall strategy for engaging with bilateral and multilateral financial institutions. Raj also has created the Foundation's Policy Research Network a network of institutions committed to developing innovative solutions to major global health policy challenges. Raj served as the Health Care Policy Advisor on the Gore 2000 presidential campaign in Nashville, TN and on Philadelphia Mayor John Street's New Centuries Committee. He started, managed, and sold a health care consulting firm Health Systems Analytics that served clients including some of the largest health systems in the country and the U.S. government. In 1995, Raj co-founded Project IMPACT an award-winning national non-profit organization that conducts leadership, mentoring, media, and political activism activities, and he currently serves on its Board of Advisors. Raj earned his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School and M.Sc. in Health Economics at the Wharton School, where he was the recipient of a NIH Medical Scientist Training Grant. He has studied at the London School of Economics and taught health systems management at INSEAD in France."


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